Mat Staver, chairman of the antigay Liberty Counsel dean of the right-wing Liberty University School of Law, totally bugged out about Republicans who support LGBT equality, according to audio obtained by Right Wing Watch.
Responding to the change of heart by Ohio senator Rob Portman — who announced last week that in light of his son coming out as gay, he now supports marriage equality — the always incendiary Staver didn't mince words.
After reiterating a threat made by right-wing Republicans such as former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins, that Republican support for marriage equality will drive evangelicals from the party into their own third political group, Staver got down and dirty.
"It’s like going into a building at night and you flip on the lights and all of the sudden the cockroaches start running," Staver told Vic Eliason of Voice of Christian Youth America on conservative radio show Crosstalk Wednesday. "And I think this same-sex marriage issue has shown the cockroaches within the Republican Party, the RINOs: Republican in Name Only. That’s why we lost the 2008 election, that’s why we lost the 2012 election."
Staver lumped Republican stalwarts like Karl Rove and Reince Priebus in with Portman, calling them all "cockroaches" and declaring that marriage equality ultimately seeks "the abolition of gender."
I think Huckabee and Perkins and Staver are right - they and those who think like them should create another party as soon as possible.
They would be just stupid enough to it.
"Hang on while I log in to the James Webb telescope to search the known universe for who the fuck asked you." -- James Fell
The Minnesota lawmaker alienates independents, moderates, and young voters — and she's not going anywhere
Attention GOP: Your rebranding attempts are being undercut by a segment of your party getting big headlines and lots of air time — a segment symbolized by the Minnesota quote-machine, Rep. Michele Bachmann. ... "
Not that I am a fan of MB, and maybe I missed it in the article but I don't see any actual studies that she is alienating "independents, moderates, and young voters". Seems to me that the article states that but offers no proof.
As I said, maybe I missed it.
It seems to me that young voters are alienated by the whole process and what is going on rather than an individual. Now someone will come along and give a breakdown of how young voters voted overwhelmingly for dem candidates, but it's been like that as long as I have been voting.
Independents, are just that (I am an independent) but people are getting tired of nothing but critisizing the "other party and their people" and no work getting done. And this applies to dems and reps.
Nobody down there is doing their job. Obama is out still campaigning. Reps are stalling the works and dems are just pointing fingers. Fire the lot of them.
